Way back in April, I met up with Lin for a sister weekend. The destination? Newport, Rhode Island… a historic coastal resort town on Aquidneck Island in beautiful Narragansett Bay. The city is rich in sailing history and noted for its iconic, resplendent Gilded Age mansions. We had three precious days, a unique opportunity for just us and we wanted to make the most of our time.
Read MoreJuneteenth, short for June Nineteenth, commemorates June 19, 1865, the day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved African Americans from bondage. Many African Americans were unaware that they had been freed. It took two years for them to get the news. In 2021, Juneteenth became America’s newest federal holiday.
Read MoreOur campsite #21 was just perfect… spacious, lots of juniper and pinyon pine to provide shady little nooks for our camp chairs. Trash and recycle bins were just across the road and the site was reasonably close to the clean, well-stocked vault toilet. A constant, gentle breeze and the increase in altitude kept it much cooler than Hole-in-the-Wall. We were the proverbial ‘happy campers’.
Read MoreHi there and welcome to Just A Little Further!
We are David and Marcie Lynn and we've lived aboard our Liberty 458 cutter-rigged sailboat since 2000.
What began as an urge to travel slowly and economically at our own pace ended up an adventure of a lifetime.
Well, here we are ... nearly 90,000 miles under the keel, 5 continents, 5 Great Southern Capes, 36 countries and almost two decades later, still taking one passage at a time and going just a little further.
